An Extract from this Month's Release: Ode to Honeyeaters

This month's release is the second edition of 366 Days of Poetry released. Links to the collection can be found at: https://books2read.com/u/3n2Yv9.

Ode to Honeyeaters

Written on July 22, 2015, for the April 8 entry of 366 Days of Poetry, this piece was written while I was sitting in an atrium outside a lecture hall. In the rain, outside, a honeyeater was feeding on an early-blooming bottlebrush, calling as it did so. It was also an experiment with form.

The birds call.

The sounds fall,

snip, snip, snipping

through the day.

Honey-eaters,

nectar seekers,

by blossoms quarrel,

flit, and stay.

Olive-backed,

black mask, bright beak,

yellow as the

dawning sun.

Raucous fellows,

snip-song telling

all of us

the day’s begun.

 

Cover art is by Jake at JCaleb Design, and links to 366 Days of Poetry can be found on Books2Read at: https://books2read.com/u/3n2Yv9